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Quality In Professional Translation: Assessment and Improvement
Dr Joanna Drugan
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Description for Quality In Professional Translation: Assessment and Improvement
Hardback. Examines how the translation profession assesses and improves quality. Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Translation. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: CFP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 242 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 516.
How do translation companies, multilingual international organizations and individual translators measure and improve the quality of their translations? This book reports on the range of approaches to quality assurance across the translation industry, from Norway to China, from the individual freelance working in a home office to the largest translation supplier in the world. Best practice is outlined for a range of translation scenarios, enabling readers to learn from others' experience - and mistakes. The author also draws on over a decade's experience to outline the potential to improve quality by exploiting modern technological support tools such as translation memory ... Read more
How do translation companies, multilingual international organizations and individual translators measure and improve the quality of their translations? This book reports on the range of approaches to quality assurance across the translation industry, from Norway to China, from the individual freelance working in a home office to the largest translation supplier in the world. Best practice is outlined for a range of translation scenarios, enabling readers to learn from others' experience - and mistakes. The author also draws on over a decade's experience to outline the potential to improve quality by exploiting modern technological support tools such as translation memory ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Number of pages
232
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Bloomsbury Advances in Translation
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781441176646
SKU
V9781441176646
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About Dr Joanna Drugan
Joanna Drugan is Senior Lecturer in Applied Translation Studies, University of East Anglia, UK
Reviews for Quality In Professional Translation: Assessment and Improvement
Well-written and easy to read ... The author merits praise for her up-to-date, highly practical and wide-ranging study on [this] so far little researched subject ... I wholeheartedly recommend the book to anyone interested in professional translation quality.
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